Stamp Duty Land Tax receipts rose by 10% in the last financial year, 2017/2018.
HMRC has reported that £12,905m was raised, with 97.3% coming from transactions in England, with Wales and Northern Ireland contributing just 2% and 0.7% respectively (Scotland has its own devolved system).
Within England, transactions in London contributed £4,860m, or 39% of total receipts.
Generally, properties over £1m accounted for only 3% of transactions but 44% of total SDLT receipts during the year.
The lion’s share of receipts from SDLT – £9,275m – came from residential transactions, and HMRC reports that there were 1.1m of these. The balance was from non-residential transactions.
The mean amount of SDLT per residential transaction rose by 7% to £8,400.
There were 69,100 transactions where first-time buyers’ relief was claimed, totalling an exemption of about £160m. The first-time buyers’ relief was introduced last November.
During 2017/2018 there were 252,000 additional dwellings transactions, bringing in higher receipts, at £4,060m.
Of this total, £1,895m worth of receipts came from the 3% SDLT surcharge.
Additional dwelling transactions accounted for 23% of residential transactions and 44% of residential receipts.
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